Genesis 41:39

And Pharaoh says to Joseph, “After God’s causing you to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as you;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:

In Context

38and Pharaoh says to his servants, “Do we find like this, a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?”

40you are over my house, and at your mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than you.”

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Cross References

Genesis 41:25And Joseph says to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he has declared to Pharaoh;

Genesis 41:33And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt;

Proverbs 12:8A man is praised according to his wisdom, || And the perverted of heart becomes despised.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:34-46

Joseph's Exaltation. ( b. c. 1715.) 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which… Read the whole commentary →

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